The Song of the Goddess

The Song of the Goddess The Devi Gita: Spiritual Counsel of the Great Goddess

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Publisher's Synopsis

The Devi Gita, literally the "Song of the Goddess," is an Eastern spiritual classic that appeared around the fifteenth century C.E. C. Mackenzie Brown provides a reader-friendly English translation of this sacred text taken from his well-regarded previous book The Devi Gita: The Song of the Goddess, A Translation, Annotation, and Commentary. Here the translation is presented uninterrupted, without the scholarly annotations of the original version, and in its entirety for the pleasure of all readers who wish to encounter this treasure from the world's sacred literature.

Often neglected, the Devi Gita deserves to be better known for its presentations of one of the great Hindu visions of the divine conceived in feminine terms. The work depicts the universe as created, pervaded, and protected by a supremely powerful, all-knowing, and wholly compassionate divine female. It also describes the various spiritual paths leading to realization of unity with the Goddess. The author of the Devi Gita intended for the work to supplant the famous teachings of Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita (the "Song of the Lord") from a goddess-inspired perspective.

Book information

ISBN: 9780791453933
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: SUNY Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 294.5925
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 148
Weight: 325g
Height: 241mm
Width: 159mm
Spine width: 13mm